Three Tiny Words

Three Tiny Words
To forge fresh links of iron

Three Tiny Words
To wrench the old ones asunder

Three Tiny Words
To find comforting certainty
And winnow it in the wind.

Three Tiny Words
To find a safe haven
And destroy it in a storm

Three Tiny Words
To light a raging fire
And snuff it out for eternity

Three Tiny Words
To end the tears forever
And flow them from a different well

Three Tiny Words
To build a house from solidarity
And destroy the old foundations

Three Tiny Words
To shatter shackles of hatred
And conjure new ones of loyalty

Three Tiny Words
To inspire the poet's pen
And send drought to its inkwell

Three Tiny Words
To prompt a flood of unheard music
And deafen the listeners

Three Tiny Words
To tear apart their world
And to forge it anew

Three Tiny Words
"I love you."